Public is being misled on pseudoephedrine law solving meth problem

10:20 PM,
Dec. 6, 2012

Written by

Christopher
DIXON

The general public is being misled. As the scenario often plays out, it's a case of the minority dictating to the majority and the majority blindly following along. In this case, it's because it's the politically correct thing to do.

Springfield City Council has a proposed bill to follow a few other ill-fated communities and make a common cold medication available by prescription only in order to supposedly slow the production of meth. Yet no leaders or statistics immediately jump forward to say, "My goodness, now that pseudo-ephedrine is prescription only, our problems are solved. Meth is ...